This Hero Is Scumbag

2022-04-07

Chapter 229 Roja and Geralster

The relationship between Roja and Geralster, but also from the year of the grotesque disaster rise.

At that time, the development of magic technology in the whole world was not very smooth. Although Yingnan had implemented a constitutional monarchy, most of the civilians lived the same life as before, and their lives were almost in vain. Either he was born to be bought by a landlord to be a “wage serf”, or he was thrown into a factory for 1,000 jobs when he grew up.

Interlude, the so-called 000 refers to 0 rest, 0 entertainment and 0 insurance.

Roja’s family background is not bad, the businessman Aristocratic Family, the family runs a Chamber of Commerce which is neither too big nor too small, enough for him to receive enough education in that era. Through childhood, Roja hardly ever felt the poverty of life. From elementary school to the National First Vocational University, Roja spent his youth smoothly.

And then came the grotesque.

To this day, Roja is still reluctant to talk about the disaster that destroyed most of the British South. At that time, their family visited the sword technique teacher far away in the village. The moment they arrived, the grotesque appeared in the village, and a massacre began.

In that disaster, Roja’s father and mother died in front of him to protect him. His sword technique mentor was drained by vampire and dumped in the garbage dump, and his four-year-old younger brother was devoured by trolls with no bones left.

Just as a ghoul stretched out a sharp claw, ready to eat Roja, who was so frightened that he couldn’t even lift a sword, a silver crossbow arrow pierced through ghoul’s throat.

“Unfortunately, I can’t even pick up a sword. I thought I could find a helper.”

Roja still remembered the man wearing a gray trench coat and holding a silver giant crossbow. When he lowered his waist and pulled out the crossbow bolt, the ghoul screamed in fear and struggled to die. Then, on that bloody land, a man named Geralster hunted down nineteen grotesques by himself.

Swords, crossbows, holy water, fire. He is like a doctor wielding a scalpel, precisely harvesting every grotesque life. It was not a massacre, it was an operation, an operation to clean up the germs of this world.

From day to dusk, the windbreaker on the man’s body was stained with grotesque blood full of corrosive acid, but the man didn’t care about it at all, he seemed to be born to hunt the grotesque, just with a wave The blood dissipated.

“I want revenge.”

Roja, who was only sixteen, picked up his sword tremblingly and said this to Geralster who was about to leave . Geralster was not as calm as he is now, and he was pointing at the age of twelve quarters. For Roja, who couldn’t even hold his sword, Geralst tried to scold him with a series of words “It’s nothing but a hindrance”, but what Geralster didn’t expect was that Roja was far more stubborn than he thought. .

In order to get rid of Roja, Geralst gave him an impossible task – “hunt a grotesque alone”. In fact, Geralster simply did not want Roja to complete this task, not because Roja was weak and could not kill the grotesque, but all the grotesques in a radius of two hundred miles were killed by Geralster, and they were not hunted by Roja at all. grotesque.

The later story is old-fashioned, but like a miracle. Among those grotesques, there was a ghoul that hid in the corpse of a rabbit and narrowly escaped Geralster’s hunt. The later ghouls, too hungry, wanted to hunt down a little girl after Geralster left. Coincidentally, Roja was in the vicinity at the time, and when he heard the call for help, he held back his fear and picked up the long sword and rushed towards the drag corpse.

Because of starvation and injuries, the drag corpse was on the verge of collapse. Although Roja couldn’t get out of the shadow of the tragic death of his parents, teacher younger brother, in front of him, he forced himself to throw himself on the drag corpse. on the body. It was a “tragic” fight, or rather, a unilateral beating of a corpse by a crazy kid. Ten minutes later, the drag corpse lost its breath, and Roja had lost his strength.

Gerlost, who witnessed all this, finally sighed helplessly. If it were him twenty years later, Old Fox would definitely find a hundred reasons to make Roja willingly give up and follow his own. idea. However, he was young at that time and didn’t know how to prevaricate it. In the end, he had no choice but to accept Roja and make him one of his assistants.

“Do you remember the training I gave you?”

Lighting a cigarette, Geralster, who was leaning against the bar door, exhaled smoke, with a satisfied look on his face.

“Well, of course I remember.”

Roja nodded, recalled: “You let me practice sword technique and holy light every day, mix potions, and learn weird knowledge.”

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“No.”

After taking a puff of cigarette, Geralster threw the cigarette butt aside and stomped it out, turned around, and pushed open the door of the bar.

“The first lesson I taught you at the time was drinking.”

At this time, Roja remembered, Geralster admitted that he brought his first training program later, It is to communicate with those poor people in the bar that he once despised, and get information that the official can’t get.

The taverns were very depressed during the plague, but it was one of the few places where people still gathered. The bar, named Blues, is a price point for the common man. In the tavern at this time, in addition to a bartender who covered it tightly, there were dozens of ragged civilians beside him.

They didn’t drink or talk. These civilians put some sponge cushions under them and lie motionless on them as if they were fleeing. When Roja and Geralster pushed open the door, only a few people turned their heads and glanced, and then ignored them.

“Welcome.”

The bartender lowered his head and wiped the glass, and asked the two of them, “I live in thirty Copper Coins a night, and receive five Copper Coins on behalf of them. Two Copper Coins for pure water, fifteen Copper Coins for food.”

The bartender said a long list of “prices”, but in a place like a pub, these are The price of the service seems hard to understand. Geralster was not surprised by this. He stepped forward and sat in front of the bar, knocking on the bar to attract the bartender’s attention.

Looking up, he found that one of the two in front of him was wearing a long trench coat, carrying a giant crossbow and a long sword. The other, although dressed in a more ordinary fashion, has a Templar Knight badge on his chest shining brightly under the lights. Seeing this, the bartender immediately put down the wine glass in his hand, with a flustered look on his face, and hurriedly said:

“Sorry, sir, I just said nonsense, you two don’t take seriously .”

Subconsciously, the bartender took out a white cloth bag from under the counter and handed it to the two of them. Geralster looked at the sack on the bar, and with pleading eyes, the pub, laughed, pushed the sack back.

“Don’t worry, we’re not here to investigate illegal gatherings, and your price is reasonable, so you can give them a way out.”

looked towards Roja, who was slightly confused on the side, Jie Laughed, Lost explained: “These civilians are farmers around Jordan who are homeless because of the plague. Just when the bar was empty, they set up a testing array at the door to let people who didn’t have the plague here. Find a place to stay.”

Hearing this, Roja understood why the bartender at first looked panicked when he saw the two of them. Because the laws of Yingnan expressly prohibit crowd gatherings for profit during the plague. According to common sense, Templar Knight is also a Law Enforcer, and he should fulfill his obligation to prevent and punish this kind of behavior.

But…

Remembering the numb eyes that opened the door just now, Roja chose silence. Although he is stubborn, upright, and sometimes does not know how to be flexible, he is more empathetic to the commoners than most people.

He also knows what it’s like to lose.

Gerlost put two Silver Coins on the table, and then said to the somewhat bewildered bartender: “This time, I want to inquire about something.”

” I can’t take this money, please tell me, I know everything.”

Geroste didn’t say much without taking the Silver Coin in front of him, just ordered two more expensive Cocktails. Push the Silver Coin in front of the bartender again. At this time, the bartender did not refuse, and after taking the Silver Coin, started to prepare the Cocktail.

“How many people have you accepted since the strong explosion of the Jordan Tower?”

Faced with this question, the bartender at first is still a little wary, but after weighing Under the pros and cons, he knew that the two people in front of him didn’t need so-called evidence to arrest him, so he simply replied: “In a total of five days, we accepted six households. Three are farmers in the east, two are factory workers in the west, and one was originally a servant of the Duke of Mintz, who was forced to come here after the Duke’s death.”

After getting the answer, Gerost Rubbing his chin and thinking for a moment, he then took out ten Silver Coins and threw them at the bartender, and said to him, who was bewildered: “Call these families out, I have some questions and want to ask them. The money will be treated as them. The meal money after that, do you understand?”

This time, the bartender hesitated for a long time, and finally accepted the ten Silver Coins. He put away the Silver Coin, put the two Cocktails in front of the two, then went to the place where the civilians gathered to find a few people to say a few words, after a while, the six people cowered to Roja and Gerlos. in front of special.

“Don’t be nervous, we just routinely ask a few questions.”

Roja looked at the seven people in front of him and tried his best to speak in a gentle tone. But his own military temperament and the medal on his chest are hard to ignore, and these seven people panicked even more after being appeased by Roja.

“Go drink, I have to do this.”

Gerrost, who is familiar with his Disciple character, waved his hand and said to the seven people in front of him: “Several Brothers, let’s just chat and ask some insignificant questions, don’t worry, there’s nothing to worry about, no one will come to check on this bar.”

Hearing Geralst’s words Afterwards, these people visibly relaxed a little. A daring man glanced at Roja on the side, then looked towards Geralster, and said cautiously: “Sir, we are a group of poor people with little knowledge and stupid mouths, so please take care of you. .”

Gerlost raised his eyebrows, looked at the middle-aged man in front of him, and asked with interest: “You said the continent very well, you are the Duke of Mintz who escaped from the family. “Yes?”

“Yes, I used to be a warehouse accountant. When the duke collapsed, we were dismissed. Because I was timid and didn’t dare to move the account, I was lucky enough to escape the liquidation. But I didn’t end up with any property, so I can only come here.”

It is obvious that this middle-aged man is very different from the others, he is very smart, and has Spiritual Qi eyes that others don’t have. . Geralster also likes to deal with smart people. He glanced out the window, and then asked the middle-aged man:

“Okay, don’t worry, I’m not in the same group as this soldier next to me, I’m a Demonhunter, you can rest assured.”

After speaking, Geralster drank the Cocktail beside his hand, and then said to the crowd: “I want to ask you, after the Jordan Tower exploded, what did you do? Have you heard any rumors?”

“What kind of rumors are you talking about?”

Facing the middle-aged man’s question, Geralster replies directly: “What? Rumors are fine, I want to hear them all.”

Under the leadership of Geralster, the seven people began to slowly open up their chatterbox, and they seemed to have found an outlet after not communicating with others for a long time. Everyone talking at once talked about various rumors. Thanks to Geralster being able to hear and distinguish what these people said, Roja on the side was already confused, and his mind was muddled.

After a while, the seven people gradually calmed down. And Geralst was also quite satisfied with what he had achieved. He stood up and said to the seven people in front of him, “Okay, thank you guys, I have gained a lot from this.”

“Just as long as you are satisfied. , just satisfied.”

The middle-aged man was a bit more involved than others, and said to Geralst and Roja: “You two have any questions, just ask, we know everything.”

“Okay, I’ve asked all the questions, don’t bother.”

Gerost waved, Roja followed behind him, ready to leave the bar. At this moment, the middle-aged man suddenly spoke up and stopped the two of them.

“Two!”

Geralster and Roja turned their heads, the man froze for a moment, and then he bowed deeply to the two, his voice trembling.

“Thank you!”

Geralster was stunned for a moment, but he soon understood what the man meant. He laughed, turned around, and pushed open the door.

“No, you just want to live.”

“That’s right.”

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“How’s it going? It’s rare to come to places like this in Templar Knight days?”

Close the bar door, Geralster’s smoking gun lit another cigarette. Roja on the side was nodded, with a slightly heavy tone.

“I thought Magic Technology and the new constitution would make their lives better, but…”

“No way, that’s all.”

With a cigarette in his mouth and his hands in the pockets of his coat, Geralst said calmly: “This era is shit, disasters are more common than food, and everyone wants to live when they hold their breath. That’s right.”

“You were…”

As soon as he said these three words, Roja noticed something was wrong and kept his mouth shut.

“You want to talk about the time I was betrayed.”

The burning cigarette smelled of tobacco, Geralst chuckled, patted Roja’s shoulder, on the Roja said slowly under the astonished gaze:

“I still hate it now, but I hated everyone back then, now…”

“I hate this world even more.”

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(End of this chapter)